10 Video Game Mentors Who Were Actually Complete Morons

3. Sweet & Ryder - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Have you revisited San Andreas since 2004? It's obscene. You kind of just accepted with the whole "bigger is better" direction, despite it meaning a random gangster went from taking his BMX out around an estate, to nabbing a jetpack and robbing a casino. It remains one of the greatest games of all time, a tale that starts out with a family reunion of sorts with your old pals, Sweet, Ryder and Big Smoke. Hang on a minute though... Ryder's first thought after CJ's been away for five years (avoiding a potential murder charge, no less) appears to be "Hey, you're back from out of town, let's murder 100 soldiers and steel some weapons" - which y'know, fine, it's GTA and all that, but come one - you're murdering soldiers and stealing weapons just for the sake of tackling gangbangers. All of this comes directly after the realisation that CJ's mother was gunned down by one of the rival families too, their initial intent being to kill Sweet - something that makes Ryder think the idea of waging war against the armed forces will result in a positive outcome. Across the game he continues this sense of individual pride taking precedence over logic, and after some betrayals and CJ gallivanting off to San Fierro, he's amassed more than enough funds to set them all up for life at the midpoint in the story, only for Sweet to insist on returning to the warzone that Grove Street has become, almost getting himself killed multiple times in the process.